“an increasing trend”

It is noted that, for 1.4 Q d , before the inflection point, the pressure amplitude exhibits an increasing trend from cavitation number σ = 0.246 to σ = 0.199.

In contrast to our results, several previous studies from tree species reported an increasing trend of plant tissue NSC concentrations with elevation (e.g., Fajardo et al., 2012 ; Hoch, 2015 ).

Background In recent years we have observed an increasing trend towards extending standard medical and radiological examinations of patients diagnosed with end-stage knee osteoarthritis (OA) by subjective, self-reported evaluation of overall health.

Regarding the L-parameter, it exhibits a decreasing tendency with age for the healthy Crh +/+ mouse, and an increasing trend for the Crh −120/+ mouse.

However, a trend of age difference was noted in the late phase of kindling process as the mean seizure scores approached a plateau after the 20th stimulation in the aging mice but continued an increasing trend to the 28th stimulation in the young mice.

The average number of pathologic metastatic LNs also showed an increasing trend as CT-tumor depth progressed, as follows: tumors with intramural, minimal extramural (<1 mm), spiculated extramural, (≥1 mm) and nodular extramural infiltration showed 1.8, 3.5, 6.7, and 11.1 pathologic metastatic LNs, respectively.

Our study revealed an increasing trend (0.05–0.28) in temperature in northeastern India (bordering Bhutan), Southeast Bhutan, Yunnan Province of China, Northern Myanmar, Central Cambodia, northern Laos, southern Vietnam, eastern Iran, southern Afghanistan, and southern Pakistan.

DEGs encoding GSPs The expression of GSPs genes exhibited an increasing trend from 10 DAA, and reached the maximum during 30~35 DAA (Table 5 ).

Soil CO 2 generally displayed an increasing trend in spring and summer, followed by a decreasing trend in autumn and winter.

However, in recent studies from Asia much higher rates and an increasing trend among 3rd-generation cephalosporin-resistant E. coli isolates have been reported [ 25 , 26 ].

Therefore, in Southeast Asian areas, OC is highly prevalent due to the ancient custom of chewing quid.[ 8 ] According to data from the National Central Cancer Registry of China, in 2009,[ 9 ] OC and throat cancer had a crude incidence of 3.28/100,000, with 4.15/100,000 for males and 2.39/100,000 for females, showing an increasing trend.[ 10 ] In Taiwan, China, the incidence of OC was approximately 27.4/100,000.[ 11 ] OC involves not only varying factors and stages but also aberrant expression of many genes in cancer development.

Therefore, from sterile ascites, through culture-negative SBP to culture-positive SBP, the variation of dCHC and sNFI showed an increasing trend.

On the contrary, KW17 showed an increasing trend, with a mean of 33.4 mg before 1920 and a mean of 38.0 mg after 2000.

However, the minimum values decreased while the maximum ones depicted an increasing trend over time around Reunion Island ( S1 – S6 Figs).

There was an increasing trend in the number of cases reported from 2006 to 2009 (1.5% to 27%) followed by no cases during 2010 to 2012.

The spatial effect exhibited an increasing trend from the eastern to western side of the county and was most pronounced in the northwestern area near the Town of Huntington.

In our 2004–2006 US national study of clinical HAdV infections from 22 laboratories, we found a relatively low prevalence of HAdV21 (2.1%) among 2189 typed HAdV specimens, an increased risk (odds ratio, 7.6; 95% confidence interval, 2.6–22.3) of severe disease compared with the more common HAdV3 infections, and an increasing trend of HAdV21 detections over time [ 10 ].

There is also an increasing trend noted in the agricultural land converted to the cultivable wasteland.

Correspondingly, HFD pigs had significantly higher postprandial glucose at 180 min after glucose challenge, as well as an increasing trend in fasting blood glucose compared with LFD, even though no difference in fasting plasma insulin concentrations were observed between the two diet groups.

There is also an increasing trend for companies to be held to account for both financial and non-financial performance; for example, within the growing Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative (SSE 2014 ) and recent years have seen increased numbers of businesses taking action to ensure that their supply chains are more sustainable and more resilient, their licence to operate is secure and their risks are adequately managed (Cranston et al. 2015 ; Maxwell et al. 2014 ).

The lack of above disadvantages was the fundamental reason that led to an increasing trend toward this therapeutic approach.

Comparable with the global trend, “the single most attributable cause for mortality in South-East Asia” is hypertension with an increasing trend [ 7 ].

Results Cumulative hazard of drop-out over period from the first to the fourth year of MMT treatment has an increasing trend at 0.15; 0.31; 0.46; and 0.61, respectively.

Moreover, ADP-induced platelet aggregation showed a decreasing trend among females and an increasing trend among males after AP administration (Figures 2(a) and 2(c) ). 3.3.

According to the World Medical Market Report, the global medical device market will grow at an average annual rate of 4.8% from 2010 to 2014, rising to an annual average of 6.1% from 2015 to 2020 due to an increasing trend in aging and awareness [ 2 ].